Leasehold
Lease house is a settlement belonging to the mountain town of Johanngeorgenstadt in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis , which was built on the territory of the Wittigsthal community, which was independent until 1935 .
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The property, which the Breitenbach hammer owner Caspar Wittich had been assigned after the Thirty Years' War to build a hammer mill on the Saxon side in the Schwarzenberg office , extended from Schwarzwasser about a kilometer eastwards along the Bohemian border up the Rabenberg . A half-timbered farm building was erected there, which was soon leased by the owners of the hammer mill. It stood right on the border, according to legend, the border ran through the house. The term leasehold soon became established for it.
The lease house was completely destroyed by fire in 1928. For the residents, a new building was built as a replacement, but for political reasons it was no longer built directly on the border with Czechoslovakia , but about 50 meters further north.
At the beginning of the 1930s, further residential buildings were built in the immediate vicinity of the leased house, mainly for employees of the Wittigsthal ironworks. When Ernst Schleitzer took over the plant in 1935, he sold additional building plots. In addition, two border guards' houses were built. The outbreak of the Second World War prevented further development.
After the rapid upswing in uranium mining by Wismut AG in Johanngeorgenstadt, accommodations for miners were urgently needed. In March 1949, a miners' settlement with a chessboard-like floor plan was built in the leasehold. After mining was stopped, most of the mining accommodations were converted into company holiday homes, most of which were vacant from 1990 onwards and, with a few exceptions, were later demolished.
literature
- Siegfried Sieber: Around Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 182f.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ' N , 12 ° 44' E